Fender for cars.



J. A. WIEDERSHEIM.

FENDER FOR GARS. APPLICATION IILED APR. 20, 1910.

969,586. Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

WITNESSES THE uomzrs PETERS cc wnsnmcrou, :14 c.

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FENDER FOB CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

Application filed April 20, 1910. Serial No. 556,516.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN A. WnaonnsHEIM, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Fender for Cars and other Vehicles, ofwhich the following is a specification. I

My invention consists of a guard for a fender composed of a member whichis normally elevated from a road bed or rails, and adapted to be broughtclose to the latter so as to wipe the same and prevent any existingspace between said guard and road bed and rails so as to prevent aperson or object struck by the fender from being caught un der the same,while on the contrary, the person or object will be deflected upwardlyon the guard and landed in the fender.

For the purpose of explaining my in vention, the accompanying drawingillustrates a satisfactory reduction of the same to practice, but theimportant instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to beunderstood that the invention is not limited to the specific arrangementand organi zation shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a car fender embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof, the

guard being illustrated as tilted 'into'opera-.

t-ive position. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the guardemployed. Fig. & represents a front view of a portion of the guard, itssupport on the fender, and the means for actuating it on an enlargedscale. Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of. another form of fenderthat may be employed. Fig. 6 represents a perspective view of a portionof another form of shoe that may be employed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings :A designates a fender which is composed of anet or bed and the frame B, both in general respects being of ordinaryconstruction.

C designates the side arms of the said frame, the rear ends whereof areconnectible with the car D by means E usual in such cases. On the frontends of said arms G are eyes or bearings F, in which is rotativelymounted the transversely extending axle or shaft G. Firmly connectedwith said shaft is the shoe H which is composed of a plate or bar partlyor entirely of soft rubber or rubber compound, or other suitableyielding material, the same tapering somewhat from rear to front so thatits front edge portion is reduced in thickness, said portion pointingdownwardly in the normal position of the shoe and being essentiallypliable in its nature.

The upper side of the shoe is rounded or circular and so presents anunbroken curved surface from front to rear, it being noticed at thistime that said shoe occupies the front of the fender and extendstransversely thereon from side to side.

Owing to the eccentric form of the shoe or guard, that is, it having aportion projecting farther from its axis of rotation than the otherparts, the shoe or guard may be rotated to bring such eccentric partinto contact with the roadbed and by reversal of such rotation, theeccentric portion will be raised out of engagement with the road-Connected with a proper portion of the shaft G, is the arm J, which withthe former provides a crank for turning the shoe H, as will behereinafter more fully referred to.

K designates a spring, which in the present case, is interposed betweenthe crank arm J and the adjacent eye or bearing F, a portion of saidspring being a coil which freely encircles the shaft G and the otherportions comprising the ends of the coil, one end being stationarilyfitted in an opening L, in the adjacent eye or bearing F and the otherend being stationarily fitted in an opening M in the arm J, whereby whenthe latter is drawn rearwardly, one end of the spring follows the same,while the other end thereof remains stationary on the eye or bearing F,the coil of the spring being thereby contracted. As the shaft G rotateswith said arm, the shoe H turns with the same in such manner that itsfront end is raised from the road bed and street rails, its inoperativeposition, but providing a guard on the front of the fender forsubsequent use as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1.

Various means may be employed for retaining the shoe or guard in saidposition. In the present case, I employ the cord or chain N which isconnected with the upper end of the arm J, and adapted to pass throughthe keyhole shaped slot or opening P onithe' dashboard of the car, ithaving a ball or knot Q, near its rear end, and a knob or handle R onsaid end, it being evident that when said ball rests against the backwall of the narrow portion of the slot P, the cord or chain N is held bysaid ball and the dashboard so as to prevent forward motion of the same,whereby the arm J and consequently the shoe H are controlled in theposition shown in Fig. 1.

hen a person is in the path of the fender and liable to be struck, themotorman or driver quickly pushes the cord or chain into the wide partof the slot P when the ball or knot Q passes through the same, thuspermitting said cord or chain to move forwardly and release the arm Jfrom the restraint of the same, when the spring K then expands androtates the shaft, turning the shoe downwardly, advancing its frontportion to the road bed and rails when said portion bends rearwardly soas in a measure to wipe said read bed and rails and prevent theexistence of any space between the shoe and road bed and rails, asillustrated in Fig. 2. Now when the shoe reaches the person and he isstruck by the same, he will not be caught under the shoe and rolledinjuriously by the same toward the truck or running gear of the car, butmay fall on the shoe, when he will be shoved upwardly on the shoe as aninclined plane to the net or bed A and landed in the latter safe andwithout material injury. ln Fig. 5, I show another form of fender inwhich the eyes or bearings F for the shaft G are formed on the sidepieces of the frame to which the net or bed is directly attached, therear end of said frame having means S for attachment to a car.

The guard may be reset by the motorman or driver by taking hold of theknob or handle and drawing back the cord or chain N and reengaging thebutton or knot Q through the narrow part of the slot P and engaging itwith the back wall of the latter as in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that the fender as such is not disturbed in order toraise and lower the guard to inoperative and operative positionsrespectively.

In Fig. 6,1 show ashoe composed of a head T, which is mounted on theaxle or shaft G, as in the other figures, the front of said head havingthereon brush material U which is pliable and adapted to act as a wipersimilarly to the shoe in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a fender, a transversely extending guard on the front thereof, ashaft rotatably mounted on the fender and carrying said guard, means forarbitrarily operating and releasablyretaining said shaft to hold saidguard elevated from a road bed, and means connected to said shaft forautomatically operating the same to lower said guard to said road bed.

2. In combination with a fender, a transversely-extending guard pivotedto the front edge of said fender to tilt upward out of contact with thetrack surface and to tilt downward to wipe such surface, means forarbitrarily raising and detachably holding such guard, and means forautomatically tilting said guard downward when released.

3. A fender, a transversely extending guard on the front of the fender,a shaft carrying said guard, bearings on the fender in which said shaftis rotatively mounted, a resilient device connected with said shaft andfender for rotating said shaft to the operative position of said guard,and means for rotating said shaft to raise and releasably hold the guardin the inoperative position of the same.

4. A fender having a transversely extend-- ing rotatable eccentric guardon the front thereof. adapted to be mounted on the frame of the fender,means for holding said guard normally elevated and capable of beingreleased, and a spring for lowering said guard to operative positionwhen said means are released.

5. A fender, a guard at the front thereof, a rotatable shaft carryingsaid guard eccentrically thereto, bearings on the frame of the fenderfor said shaft, a crank arm connected with said shaft for rotating saidshaft in one direction, means connected to said arm to actuate the sameand capable of being released, and a spring connected with said fenderand shaft and acting against said means for rotating said shaft in theopposite direction, by which means said guard may be held normallyraised, and operatively lowered.

6. In a fender, a transverse guard pivotally mounted on the frontthereof, means connected to said guard to automatically tilt the sameinto contact with the road-bed, and manually operated detachable meansconnected to the guard to draw and hold the same out of contact with theroad-bed against the action of said automatic tilting means.

7. A fender, a guard transversely pivoted at the front thereof andformed with an eccentric wiping portion, means connected to said guardto automatically rotate the same to bring its eccentric portion intocontact with the road-bed, and manually operated means connected to theguard to act against said automatic rotating means and to draw anddetachably hold the eccentric portion of the guard out of contact withthe road-bed.

8. A fender, a guard transversely pivoted at the front thereof andformed with an eccentric and yielding wiping portion, means connected tosaid guard to automatically rotate the same to bring its yieldingeccentric portion into contact with the road-bed,

and manually operated means connected to the guard to act against saidautomatic rotating means and to draw and detachably hold the eccentricportion of the guard out of contact with the road-bed.

9. A fender, a guard movably supported at the front of the same andconstructed to automatically move into contact with the road-bed, andmanually operated means connected to said guard to draw and detachablyhold said guard out of contact With the road-bed.

10. A normally stationary fender, a transversely-extending downwardlyprojecting guard pivotally mounted thereon, a manually-operative devicefor holding the front of said guard in elevated position, and meansconnected with said guard and the fender adapted to turn said guardautomatically toward a roadbed.

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM.

Witnesses:

WM. CANER WmDERsEIM, E. HAYWARD FAIRBANKS.

